Hadestown Leads Winners of 2019 Outer Critics Circle Awards

Winners are here for the 69th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best theater on, off- and off-off-Broadway in the 2018-2019 season. Leading the slate of winners is Hadestown with six awards including Outstanding New Broadway Musical. Other top prizes went to Girl from the North Country as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical, The Ferryman as Outstanding New Broadway Play and White Noise as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play. The prize for Outstanding Revival of a Musical went to the Yiddish-language production of Fiddler on the Roof, with the award for Outstanding Revival of a Play going to All My Sons.

The Outer Critics Circle is an association of members affiliated with more than 90 newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, internet and theater publications in America and abroad. Winners will be honored at a gala awards dinner set for May 23 at Sardi's Restaurant. Jenn Colella, Tina Fey, Montego Glover, Hamish Linklater, Lindsay Mendez and Lily Rabe will co-host.

Special Notes:

This season's production of The Boys in the Band was not eligible for Outer Critics Circle Awards because the production did not accommodate nominators due to limited ticket availability and the limited run of the show.

Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song was considered by the Outer Critics Circle for its off-Broadway run during the 2017-2018 season, and only new elements were considered for its Broadway transfer.

Per the petitioning of its producers, the Broadway production of Hadestown was considered in all musical-related categories due to substantial changes to its book, score and production from its off-Broadway premiere.

A full list of winners can be found below in bold and preceded by an asterisk.

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAYFairviewThe House That Will Not StandLewiston/ClarkstonThe Light*White Noise

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICALThe Beast in the JungleBlack Light*Girl from the North CountryThe Hello GirlsMidnight at the Never Get

OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)*Robert Horn, Tootsie
Conor McPherson, Girl from the North Country
Peter Mills and Cara Reichel, The Hello Girls
Anaïs Mitchell, Hadestown
Jeff Whitty and James Magruder, Head Over Heels

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Joan Allen, The Waverly Gallery
Stephanie Berry, Sugar in Our Wounds
Fionnula Flanagan, The Ferryman
Harriett D. Foy, The House That Will Not Stand*Celia Keenan-Bolger, To Kill a Mockingbird